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Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of…Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The summe and substance of…
Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The sum and substance of XV. sermons. Preached by that faithful and painful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Lawrence Jury, London. They being his last sermons. To which is added a funeral sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached.Grace: the truth and growth and different degrees thereof. The summe and substance of XV. sermons. Preached by that faithful and painful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Lawrence Jury, London. They being his last sermons. To which is added a funerall sermon, being the very last sermon he ever preached.
London: printed by E.G. for J. Rothwell, 1652
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Sermon 8: VIII. Sermon at Lawrence Jury London. April 6. 1651.
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How doth it appear that temptations so urgent,1 so continued, and so suited, may be consistent with strong grace?
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By instances,1 whereby it appears the best of Gods children have been most tempted. Job a holy man, yet with what strong temptations was he assaulted? the devil impoverished him in his state, and so would tempt him to distrust Gods providence; took away the lives of his children, to make him question providence; tormenting him with grievous diseases, to make him clamour against providence; and above all this tempted him to curse God and die, by the instigations of his wife;2 and yet though Job was thus haunted by the devil, he was a believer strong in grace, and the most eminent Saint in that age, and that part of the world at that time, as God himself testifies of him, that there was none like him upon earth, a perfect and an upright man.—He was not only for riches the greatest of all the men of the East, but for holiness the greatest upon the earth; yet thus was he afflicted and assaulted by the devil.
By instances,1 whereby it appears the best of Gods children have been most tempted. Job a holy man, yet with what strong temptations was he assaulted? the devil impoverished him in his state, and so would tempt him to distrust Gods providence; took away the lives of his children, to make him question providence; tormenting him with grievous diseases, to make him clamour against providence; and above all this tempted him to curse God and die, by the instigations of his wife;2